How much (if any) do you give your DC’s at uni

[candle18]

My oldest is moving away for uni and I have another two who are younger, 13 and 15. It obviously depends on what someone can afford but did you fund quite a bit of your child’s time at uni or did you expect them to work as much as needed to subsidise student loan. Trying to decide what would be reasonable.

DS has a tuition loan but we fund his living entirely. That said, it is not enormously expensive, rent is 4.5K a year and I send him £250 a month for the 8 months of the year he is away at university. So about 7.5k all in a year. He works in the holidays to fund anything over and above but he manages fine.
What is reasonable will depend on your individual circumstances - we are able to do this because we have paid off our mortgage and DS does not have a lavish lifestyle.

We make up the parent contribution so they receive as much as someone on the max loan. They have a job waitressing at weekends so haven't needed anything else from us.

We gave our children about £80 a week. If they wanted anymore they earned ii.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4549631-how-much-financial-help-did-you-give-dc-at-uni
lots of replies on your other thread

We pay their rent. Done this for two although second is now repeating final year which is a pain. DD 1 and DS 1 from first marriage so split with Ex. Will pay all rent for DS2.

£50 a week. We also had to pay some of her rent as her student loan didn’t cover it.

she seemed to manage ok and got a part time job

Top up from minimum maintenance loan to full maintenance loan . That works out to £415pm next academic year and is kind of what is ‘expected’ if you have a household income over £65k. (Though not necessarily affordable for everyone in that situation).